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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week

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Take Macy’s — the once-iconic department store with a market cap today of $4 billion. Its biggest competitor for clothing and accessories isn’t Kohl’s (market cap of $6 billion) or Ross Stores (market cap of $41 billion) or the specialty retailers that once lined the malls. It’s Amazon. percent a year earlier, and a 42.5

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Apple’s Long Strange Trip to A $2T Valuation

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And its market cap will hit $2 trillion if the stock rises about another 5 percent to $467.77 And so Jobs — who had co-founded Apple in 1976, left in 1985 after scuffling with the company CEO and returned to take the helm in 1997 when Apple acquired his second company NeXT — began a turnaround. 11), giving the company a roughly $1.91

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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After hearing that a big conference was coming to San Francisco and that hotel rooms were totally sold out, two 27-year-old guys, who were living there in 2007 and struggling to pay rent, bought three airbeds and turned their living room into a makeshift bed and breakfast. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2021 update)

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2 returned after dropping off last year (GreenSky, Sezzle). _. The startups is expecting to go public in early 2021 via a SPAC with an estimated market cap of $1.3B. The total value is now $1.42 trillion up from $1.25 trillion last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Jan 1) = 125. + Total (Jan 31) = 134. Total valuation = $1.42

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

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2 returned after dropping off last year (GreenSky, Sezzle). _. The startups is expecting to go public in early 2021 via a SPAC with an estimated market cap of $1.3B. The total value is now $1.42 trillion up from $1.25 trillion last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Jan 1) = 125. + Total (Jan 31) = 134. Total valuation = $1.42

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B. Credit Suisse paid nearly three times the book value for DLJ, and got little in return. Microsoft and aQuantive. Price: $6.3B.

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Is Stitch Fix’s IPO The Latest E-Commerce Dud Or Is Its Styling Algorithm A Game-Changer?

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Users can try on items at home, and return whatever they don’t like in prepaid shipping envelopes. Founded in 2007, Bonobos was valued at $182.6M Stitch Fix has — almost — become a household name. Launched in 2011, the startup offers subscription boxes of apparel and accessories curated by personal stylists for each shopper.

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